Typha angustata
MH301 : Typha angustata Bory & Chaub.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 523 |
| Synonym | : | Typha domingensis Pers.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Pun Pan-Kanis, Lesser Indian Reed Mace, Hati ghah, Googol bon |
| Plant Family | : | Typhaceae |
| Description | : | It is a marsh land herb; tall bush like habit, 6-10 ft. high. Leaves erect, spongy, base sheathing. Flowers small, in very dense, superposed, cylindric spikes, bright greyish-brown in colour, often intermixed with dilated -tipped hairs. Perianth of capillary hairs, or in male flowers obsolete. Stamens one or more, tip of connective thickened. Ovary often reduced to a hair with clavate tip, long stalked, narrowed into a capilary style, with a filiform stigma. Fruit very minute, pericarp membranous, indehiscent or follicular. Seeds with striate testa, albumen floury |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | On mudy substrate along pond margins |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Rare |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/231402 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Commelinidae |
| Order | : Typhales |
| Family | : Typhaceae - Cat-tail family |
| Genus | : Typha L. - cattail |
| Species | : Typha angustata |